Spalding County is located in the west central region of Georgia, USA. Here, the total number of population is 63,829, and the county seat here is Griffin. Spalding County was established on December 20, 1851, and it was named after Thomas Spalding. He was a Senator and former United States representative. This county has a total area of 200 square miles, and the zip codes of Spalding County are 30292, 30266, 30224, 30223, and 30284.

Honorable Sheriff Darrell Dix and his team conduct patrols across the county to make sure the county remains a safe area for the citizens. You can contact him if you use the following details:

Spalding County Sheriff’s Office

401 Justice Boulevard

Griffin, Georgia, 30224

Phone: 770-467-4282 and 770-227-9406

Fax: 770-467-4268

Inmate Search in Spalding County Jail

Spalding County Jail doesn’t provide online inmate roster list service. Therefore, you have to call at 770-467-4282 and make a direct inquiry to a jail staff. When communicating with a jail staff, you should provide the first and last name of the inmate or ID number or date of birth correctly. It will get you fast results.

Important Jail Policies and Procedures

Spalding County Jail’s visitation takes place on every Saturday, Sunday and all county observed holidays. On these scheduled days, the visitors can meet with the inmates from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Note that if you come on Saturday, you will not be allowed to have another visitation on Sunday and vice-versa. Also, your name must be on the list of pre-approved visitor’s list. Upon arriving at the facility, you have to go through a formal search procedure.

Communicating with an inmate can be done through inmate mail. Bear in mind; you have to use the U.S. Postal Service to send any mail or letter to Spalding County Jail. The jail authority reserves the right to check all incoming mail for the contraband issue. When sending mail or postcard, you should use the following mailing address:

Name of the Inmate

Spalding County Jail

401 Justice Boulevard

Griffin, Georgia, 30224

You can send commissary funds to an inmate’s account if you use the following methods:

Sending funds via the U.S. Postal Money Orders.

Depositing funds to an inmate’s account using the kiosk machine.

Making online deposit by going online using the following address: http://MyCarePack.com

Each registered sex offender’s information is recorded in either state or national based sex offender database. All these criminals have been charged with either a sex crime or a kidnapping crime. According to the law, a sex offender is someone who has committed a sex crime including rape, molestation, statutory rape, sexual assault, child pornography, and sex trafficking. A sex crime is any illegal act that involves violent and forced sexual conduct against a person. You can locate any sex offender at Spalding County Jail if you navigate to the following link:

Please keep in mind the search result will display the last known or primary addresses or block of the sex offenders where they are currently living on. You have to accept a disclosure to use the database.

Bail and Bondsman

Bailing someone out of Spalding County Jail is easy if you post the bail money to the court. The bail money is 10% of the total money charged for a crime offense. The court will review the crime and set a particular amount as charges for whatever crime they have committed. If the bail money set is too high or if you are financially insolvent, you should get help from a bail bondsman. A bail and bondsman would post the bail money and charge a minimum of $100. In some cases, you need to pay around 10-15% of the total bail money.

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The Spalding County Sheriff’s Office in conjunction with the Office of Spalding County Coroner Sonny Foster, are releasing that the body found in the wall of the former Howard Johnson’s Hotel on February 11, 2018 has been positively identified as Timothy Johnson. Johnson, who was last seen on December 6,2017 was found lodged in a wall in a plumbing chase between 2 rooms in the abandoned hotel.
According to Sheriff Darrell Dix, “All indications are that Johnson was in the wall stripping copper from plumbing when he died. Investigators found cutting tools, flashlights, and copper piping that had been cut for removal. An autopsy performed by the GBI Crime Lab showed that there was no trauma to Johnson’s body and foul play is not involved. The way that his body was positioned in the wall and evidence recovered around him indicates that he was not dumped there as has been rumored. It will be months before results of toxicology tests are available that may shed more light on the cause of his death.”
Dix Continued, “The hotel was searched by investigators from the Spalding County Sheriff’s Office twice and Griffin Police Department and Spalding Sheriff’s Investigators combined an additional time during the period that Johnson was missing. Two of those times the searches were conducted with the use of cadaver dogs. Each of these searches, room to room, the office areas, and anywhere else we could access, including the searches with cadaver dogs, yielded no results. Even the rooms that we were specifically asked to search yielded no results. The location where Timothy Johnson’s body was found was in an area that was closed off, low to the ground, and dark. The area could not be accessed unless you cut into the wall in just the right place, and to recover his body, we had to remove an entire section of wall from one area. We met with Timothy Johnson’s mother and other family members at the hotel this morning and at their request, showed them the area and walked them through the events that led up to the discovery of the body.”
Dix added, “It appears that the person who located Johnson’s body was there to strip copper from the building as well when he stumbled upon the body. We have spoken to him, questioned him at length, and have determined that he had nothing to do with Johnson’s death. Due to the discovery being made during the attempt to commit a crime he will not receive the reward that was offered.”

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Thanks to Maghan Knowles for her donation to the Spalding County Junior Deputy Program. The donation was made in honor of her Grandmother Sadie Phillips. Mrs. Sadie, as she was known to all of us, loved the Junior Deputy Program and always supported it. Maghan’s donation will help send a 6th grader to Washington! Thanks Maghan! We love and miss you Mrs. Sadie!